My fundamental point is that mountaineering, or even hiking knowledge, is primarily contained off google: in paper maps, books, but mostly meatspace and experience, gained and shared.

Is there now a generation that assumes all knowledge is googlable? And if there is an “app for it” then it is as good as it gets?

I’m not blaming them, I was lucky enough to be taught about hiking (in this instance) by real people, no achievement of mine. More musing about how knowledge distribution is evolving.